Bug#1051082: drkonqi: Crash report wizard complete, but drkonqi then sits for hours without completing send

2023-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
Package: drkonqi Version: 5.27.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was trying to report a KWin crash using drkonqi. I answered all the many questions the "KWin - The KDE Crash Handler" window (which I believe is drkonqi) asked me, pressed Submit, and ... it has been sitting there spinning

Bug#966269: v4l2loopback-utils: No man page or documentation of any kind

2020-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
Package: v4l2loopback-utils Version: 0.12.1-1 Severity: normal The package has no man page (which I thought was required for all Debian packages), and its folder in /usr/share/doc has a changelog and not much else. There is no information how to use it anywhere at all that I can find (within

Bug#934860: mate-media-pulse: Can't install on Buster because depends on wrong version of mate-media-common

2019-08-15 Thread Carl Fink
Package: mate-media-pulse Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable root@debian-NUCi5:~# apt install mate-media-pulse Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested

Bug#921603: installation-reports: Buster installer fails to detect CD when installing from flash drive (USB)

2019-02-06 Thread Carl Fink
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB flash drive Image version: Buster Alpha3 AMD64 (downloaded 7 February 2019), also unetbootin image downloaded 8 Feb Date: Machine: Intel NUC8i5BEK Partitions: root@debian-NUCi5:~# fdisk

Bug#897145: installation report

2018-04-28 Thread Carl Fink
ot; Cannot boot from this drive. I will try writing the image to a different USB drive to see if the problem might be the partition table of the installer drive, which is what Error 17 would seem to point to. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonabl

Bug#833706: Additional instance

2016-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
Another report: same error and same behavior on a Lenovo Yoga 11S. Using the 64-bit netinst image. Going to try the more complete media image now. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Bug#832312: libssh2-php: Compiled against different version of OpenSSL than Apache2, complains in log, WordPress upgrade fails

2016-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
Package: libssh2-php Version: 0.12-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm trying to use WordPress's automated upgrades. I installed libssh2-php and its dependencies so that I could use WP's ssh file-transfer feature. WP upgrades fail with a 500 error, and the Apache2 log reports: [Sun Jul 24

Bug#832310: Whoops, my mistake--actually a bug in ftpd-ssl

2016-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
Turns out that Filezilla was just passing along the error reported by the ftp server, in this case ftpd-ssl (on Jessie). Of course, the error is still inscrutable and not too useful. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Bug#832310: [ftp-ssl] Useless error on trying to make connection, missing certificate

2016-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
-- Package information. --- Package's Depends field is empty. Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Bug#745783: libmtp9: also segfaults with Samsung Galaxy Note 3

2014-05-24 Thread Carl Fink
Package: libmtp9 Version: 1.1.6-51-g1a2669c~ds0-1 Followup-For: Bug #745783 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux

Bug#656021: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Screen corruption when

2012-01-19 Thread Carl Fink
Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com (15/01/2012): Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon suggests: pn firmware-linux none what if you install this package? This has no effect at all. Thanks. Carl Fink -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#653936: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#653936: fglrx-glx: GLX not actually available after installation

2012-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
in the packaging. Plus as mentioned in other correspondence, that is not in fact the problem. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#653936: fglrx-glx: GLX not actually available after installation

2012-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
://www.panix.com/~carlf/files Carl Fink -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.comScript started on Sun 01 Jan 2012 02:10:26 PM EST ]0;carlf@cf-gw: ~carlf@cf-gw:~$ reportbug -q --template -T none -s none -S normal -b --list-cc none -q fglrx-glx Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your

Bug#653936: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#653936: fglrx-glx: GLX not actually available after installation

2012-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
ran that command and was informed: aticonfig: No supported adapters detected Checking the wiki, I ran modprobe -r radeon. As a result my display now has the wrong aspect ratio (800x600 on a 1280x764 display). This is seriously broken. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com

Bug#636180: network-manager: Shared to other computers does not work

2011-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
Package: network-manager Version: 0.8.4.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: wheezy According to the docs I can find, if I use nm-applet Edit Connections Auto Eth0 Edit IPV4 Settings change Method to Shared to other computers then any PC connected to the Ethernet port should see a DHCP miniserver

Bug#486296: RFP: barry (BlackBerry communication library and client)

2008-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
. And their current source tree doesn't build on my computer. It would be really helpful for me if this program were packaged for Debian,. Thank you. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Bug#486296: Additional RFP: XmBlackBerry

2008-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
FreeType. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#480225: bmc43xx driver module not installed

2008-05-08 Thread Carl Fink
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.24-6 Severity: normal I'm trying to set up my laptop which uses the Broadcom BCM4328 WiFi chip. However, the current kernel does not ship with the necessary module (as 2.6.18 did), meaning that to use this hardware I will need to compile my own

Bug#449202: Wine blocks mouse and keyboard inputs when started with any argument

2007-11-03 Thread Carl Fink
Package: wine Version: 0.9.44-1 Severity: important I installed wine using apt-get on an Unstable system. If I type any wine-related command at an xterm prompt (e.g. winecfg wineprefixcreate wine wordpad the process created seizes 95% plus of CPU while blocking all

Bug#431655: xorg restarts when playing video

2007-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00043.html That thread includes Backtrace reports from the xorg crashes. Relevant versions on my PC: totem-xine: 2.16.5-3 vlc: 0.8.6.a.debian-6 kaffeine: 0.8.3-1 I'll be glad to provide any other information that will help. Thanks. Carl

Bug#431241: Tutorials in docs don't match installed files

2007-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
Package: pythoncard-doc Version: 0.8.1-8.1 Severity: normal The Getting Started in PythonCard documentation by Dan Shafer refers to the various example files installed with pythoncard-doc. Unfortunately, the actual source in those files doesn't match what Dan writes at all, making the tutorials

Bug#348645: Reopen 348645

2007-04-30 Thread Carl Fink
-configuration) failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action restart failed. dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This prevents me from actually configuring mutt, because I have no mail-transport-agent. -- Carl Fink

Bug#411604: request-tracker2.4: Modules stated as required do not exist

2007-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
Package: request-tracker3.4 Version: 3.4.1-2 Severity: important Trying to set up the package, I discover that it's installed in an unrunnable configuration requiring extensive manual editing. Doing that, I find instructions in apache-modperl.conf that # You will need to enable the Apache

Bug#393329: After seemingly successful install on Turion X2 system, freeze on boot

2006-10-22 Thread Carl Fink
Additional data: 100% of the time, the system freezes on shutdown with either -h or -r when given from an xterm. If I'm at a VT, it works normally. I'm going to try to compile my own kernel to debug this. Any hints about what to try? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Bug#393329: After seemingly successful install on Turion X2 system, freeze on boot

2006-10-19 Thread Carl Fink
? If there isn't a prebuilt one, I might just compile one this weekend. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#393620: nvidia-xconfig creates a xorg.conf that doesn't work

2006-10-17 Thread Carl Fink
Package: nvidia-xconfig Version: 1.0+20051122-2 Severity: important The xorg.conf that is created uses Driver nvidia ... but startx and xdm report that this driver does not exist. It does. I have no idea what's up. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT

Bug#393329: After seemingly successful install on Turion X2 system, freeze on boot

2006-10-16 Thread Carl Fink
would think that freezing in certain video modes, or when xdm restarts (and presumably resets the video mode) is a bug. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#393329: After seemingly successful install on Turion X2 system, freeze on boot

2006-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7-smp Severity: important I installed Etch on my HP Pavilion DV6119US, which uses a Turion X2 TL-50 dual-core processor. After the install completed, I tried to boot off the Linux partition, but received this message: Checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs

Bug#392895: After install and reboot, freeze during boot into Linux on HP Pavilion DV6119US

2006-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
Package: debian-installer Severity: important After resolving a problem with ntfsresize (reported under separate cover), I was able to install Debian Etch on my Pavilion. After removing the install CD and rebooting, GRUB appears, I select Debian Etch, and Linux starts to boot. The line Checking

Bug#392897: ntfsresize error is ignored, confusing the user

2006-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
Package: debian-installer Version: Etch Beta 3 Severity: important Installing Debian Etch on my HP Pavilion DV6119US laptop, I naturally had to resize the NTFS partition to make room. Using the non-graphical installer, I chose to manually edit the partition table, to resize the main NTFS

Bug#389080: X becomes unresponsive to keyboard events

2006-09-23 Thread Carl Fink
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.0.22 Severity: important You'll have to advise me on what package this bug really belongs against: I'm not familiar enough with the X internals to be sure. Routinely, when anything even slightly demanding of screen updates happens, X stops responding to the keyboard.

Bug#387059: Wishlist: option menu permits re-activating image animation

2006-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: wishlist I generally run with image animation turned off. There are places where I lose information I actually care about, though. It would be very useful if FF added a reactivate animation (or just animate) to the option (right-click) menu

Bug#386883: Left margin, once set to non-1 value, can never be set back to 1

2006-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
Package: joe Version: 3.3-5 Severity: normal I use joe in its jstar personality as my primary text editor. If I set the left margin to (for instance) 5 by using ^ol, 5, I can never set it back to 1. Any value other than 1 is accepted, but jstar will not accept 1 as a valid input to ^ol. In

Bug#381392: LPRng docs incorrectly state that it doesn't support USB

2006-08-03 Thread Carl Fink
Package: lprng-doc Version: 3.8.28-4 Severity: normal Chapter 11 of LPRng-Reference.html says, Common communication methods between a printer and a host system are network connections, parallel ports, or serial ports; while Fibre Channel, SCSI, USB, FireWire, InfraRed, and other interesting

Bug#380663: Supplemental: almost immediate failure

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Fink
to a file! E [01/Aug/2006:22:54:24 -0400] Unable to find IP address for server name ! E [01/Aug/2006:22:54:24 -0400] Job ID 3 cannot be printed to raw queue pointing to a file! -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Bug#380663: Supplemental: almost immediate failure

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Fink
ever exit silently. Most certainly no system daemon should do so. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#380663: Cupsys starts when first installed, but silently exits and will never run again

2006-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-3 Severity: grave Twice, now, I've had the experience of having to not only remove, but purge cupsys and reinstall it in order to get my bog-standard HP Laserjet to work. Both times, everything was fine immediately after the reinstall, but when I tried to print a

Bug#335660: Fixed version not in unstable?

2006-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
distro? That report was back in February, so it can't be a build problem, can it? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#335660: Fixed version not in unstable?

2006-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:28:51PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: clone 335660 -1 retitle -1 privoxy: wrong HTTP status code 404 on No such Domain tags -1 = confirmed thanks De nada. On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Carl Fink wrote: Just now, trying to use Dice's job search feature (yes, I'm

Bug#372309: Upgrade to 1.2 is not automatic and has vague instructions

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-2 Severity: normal Upgrading to cupsys 1.2 should be automatic, and probably could be. Instead dpkg informs root that certain changes need to be made. To make a minor problem worse, the instructions for enable/disable (as of this version) don't say WHICH FILE to

Bug#372547: No docs

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
Package: avifile-player Version: 1:0.7.44.20051021-1 Severity: normal I believe it's Debian policy to include documentation in /usr/share/doc for all packages. At this point, avifile-player has none. Certainly I'd find more documentation helpful Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#368051: Supporting report

2006-05-28 Thread Carl Fink
be useful. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354079: Squirrelmail: apt-get wants to install apache2 even though apache 1.x is installed

2006-02-22 Thread Carl Fink
Package: squirrelmail Severity: important Screen capture follows: iconsf:/home/carlf# apt-get install squirrelmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php4

Bug#352632: mailman: fails to send mail with mysterious Python error in log

2006-02-14 Thread Carl Fink
Joost asked about permissions on various directories. That led me to the real problem: I had accidentally put the archives in /var/lib/mailman/mailman/archives, not /var/lib/mailman/archives. Fixing that fixed everything. Sorry to bother you. Please close the bug. -- Carl Fink

Bug#352632: mailman: fails to send mail with mysterious Python error in log

2006-02-12 Thread Carl Fink
Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-8sarge1 Severity: serious Justification: 1 When I try to send mail to one of the lists on a newly-set-up server (new.iconsf.org), no mail is sent and the following entries appear in the log: Feb 12 22:52:20 2006 post(9773): post script, list not found: net-team

Bug#348645: Please reopen 348645

2006-02-11 Thread Carl Fink
I'm experiencing exactly the symptoms Lukas Ruf reported, with 2.2.8-9. I'll be glad to forward any other information that might help. The lack of mail-transport-agent is blocking all other upgrades, so any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Carl Fink

Bug#345474: Gives useless error message, then closes

2005-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
Package: nautilus-cd-burner Version: 2.10.2-2 Severity: important I installed the nautilus-cd-burner to burn a data DVD. However, when I start it I get an error dialog reading: No files selected You need to copy the files you want to write to disk to the CD/DVD Creator window. Would you

Bug#265375: Please re-open this bug

2005-08-28 Thread Carl Fink
. Postfix-tls does not work as installed without libsasl2-modules. That is broken behavior. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con System Administrator and Postmaster http://www.iconsf.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#307003: mozilla-firefox: Attempts to edit bookmarks produce XML Parsing Error

2005-04-29 Thread Carl Fink
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: important Selecting Manage Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu gives a window with the uninformative title Gecko and the following contents: XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul Line

Bug#303493: totem: Task-switching to Totem causes system freeze

2005-04-06 Thread Carl Fink
Package: totem Version: 0.100-5 Severity: important Twice, task-switching a minimized Totem window to the foreground (once using the mouse and icewm's task bar, once with alt-tab) has completely frozen the system. The Totem window draws, but without its contents (once an MP3 visualization, once

Bug#297807: mozilla-firefox: On upgrade, Firefox gives incorrect XML error and refuses to open a file

2005-03-02 Thread Carl Fink
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-6 Severity: important On upgrading Firefox, I was unable to open a file using either File, Open or ^O. I got this not-terribly-useful error message: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line Number 2,

Bug#295925: gtk2-engines-xfce: Error message says to install libxfce.so when actual problem is that no GTK theme is selected

2005-02-18 Thread Carl Fink
Package: gtk2-engines-xfce Severity: normal I'm trying to get a USB/IR dongle from Deys Electronics to work on my Sarge system. It comes with the Proxima Beamer software from Obexcode (www.obexcode.com). Proxima, in turn, is a GNOME application (according to the writeup). I had a